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12-26-2016, 10:51 AM
A week ago, I was flying in premium economy from europe to Boston.
Not a big deal, for flights over 5 hours I book airlines with premium economy seating. I get more leg room, can sleep, and the food is an improvement.
I always recline my seat because airline seats are already under a 90* angle. After take off, I had this old cunty American woman jab something into my seat to prevent it from reclining. At first I thought something was wrong with the seat, so after take off I began violently pushing back on my seat to get it to recline.
Eventually, I heard this crunch and my seat gloriously reclined. I think the cunt behind me stuffed something in my seat to prevent it from reclining!
Later, when I got up to grab my free snacks the lady was giving me this horrendous stink eye. I could care less.
I paid for the seat, it reclines, i'm goin to recline it. I could give 2 shits if the person in front of me reclines. If the person behind me wants me space, recline your seat too or pay for 1st class. Hell premium economy is essentially what 1st class was back in the 90s.
Bitch ultimately switched seats.
Anyone else have stories of people like this?
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12-26-2016, 12:13 PM
This is actually a problem caused by airlines, who are squeezing more people into their seats. I don't like when people recline, because I can't use my laptop. But I also understand the need to recline. People will fight when there's not enough space, whether it's a woman or not.
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12-26-2016, 12:35 PM
I agree that you should do whatever you want with your seat within reason - or just pay for first class.
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12-26-2016, 12:59 PM
Two options:
1. Fly Japan Airlines. 34" pitch in economy = US Airline's premium eco
2. Fly business class. Skip the bottle service and pay for nicer seats.
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12-26-2016, 01:07 PM
lol ill give a funny-ish story about my most recent flight;
Was probably about an hour into a nap, if I have an early morning (6am in this case) flight i will stay up all night so as to force myself to sleep on the plane. Then some old geezer starts violently pulling on the back of my chair from the top as he is moving out of his seat to go to the toilet, it was as if someone was violently shaking me to wake me up, so I got up and I say "er excuse me why are you doing that?" and the cunt ignored me and walked off, didnt even look at me and I said this not more than a foot away from him. Anyway I just sat back down, tried to go to sleep again and on his return he does the same exact thing, fuck it I got up and told him "nah not this again, you have a chair, dont use mine for balance use yours, im trying to sleep". The guy just looks at me with a blank stare, at which point im like ???? wtf, his wife sat by the window then says "hes deaf and has no hearing aid so he cant hear you". I try explain in sign language, but he just laughs at me...the cunt...really? I proceed to have to put up with this dude getting up multiple times for the rest of the flight, his bladder must not exist. Planes, they drive me mad.
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12-26-2016, 01:12 PM
They call it cattle class for a reason.
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12-26-2016, 01:20 PM
You need to be a baller to fly business class regularly on long haul. I got lucky 2 times and got upgraded for free on the Istanbul-Bangkok and Istanbul-NY route, and oh boy let me tell you it was one of my best experiences. You need shell out anywhere between 2.5k to 5k if you want to fly real business class on long haul NON STOP.
Some airlines like Ukraine International offer very cheap business class on long haul, but you don't get real business class service there trust me. The seat cannot be fully reclined into a bed and so on.
Airlines that offer real business class: Turkish,Qatar,Emirates,Cathay,British etc you get the idea.
And there are a select few who even offer real first class.
Qatar,Emirates are the ones that I know of. Cathay probably does too.
Check this out
You can take a shower in the fucking plane. Amazing.
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12-26-2016, 01:47 PM
When I was a small child I was messing with the seat in front of me before takeoff and pressed the button to pop the built in phone on a cord out of the seatback that they used to have on the old planes. Long story short neither my parents nor any of the flight attendants could get the thing to go back in. The whole flight ended up delayed 45 minutes.
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12-26-2016, 04:03 PM
^ I've probably spent more than 10k on airfare in Turkish Airlines in the last 2 years. I only managed to rack up enough miles to get upgraded to Business Class once! I used it on my Istanbul-NY flight.
10k might not be a big sum for some of you, but its probably more than what most people spend on airfare in their lifetime.
I can only fly business on short haul flights with my FF miles. On short haul I could give 2 fucks if I fly business or not, its not worth it on short haul. Business class only makes a difference on long haul!
On a 2 hour flight from Ankara to Kiev I don't care if I even stand up during the whole flight
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12-26-2016, 09:13 PM
This thread needs more Global Entry.
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12-27-2016, 02:39 AM
Reserve a seat either in the first row or behind the emergency row to ensure this never happens. Otherwise, you will have to communicate like a decent human being to work things out with fellow passengers.
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12-27-2016, 03:38 AM
If I applied the golden rule, I would like to be able to recline the seat only slightly, and I would like to be able to force the person in front of me to recline the seat only slightly as well. I can understand where redditor is coming from. It's not "crabs in a bucket"- he would be much more comfortable if the person in front didn't recline- and he doesn't mind not reclining himself.
To be honest airlines should have separate sections for those who like reclines and those who like legroom/straight tray tables. It would even clear any ambiguity if they disabled reclining on certain seats.
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12-27-2016, 03:07 PM
Yes. This is the only way to deal with it when it does happen.
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